Funder: Princeton University
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $100,000 per project for six to twelve months
Summary: Supports Princeton investigators in advancing laboratory inventions toward licensing through proof-of-concept work, data collection, and prototyping.
Key Information: The technology or invention must have been previously disclosed to Princeton’s Office of Technology Licensing.
Description
Princeton University’s Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund bridges the development gap between early-stage university research and technologies attractive for investment and licensing. It supports proof-of-concept work, data collection, and prototyping that can move inventions from Princeton laboratories toward commercial development. The goal is to make nascent technologies more readily licensable to startups or existing companies, turning research discoveries into products and applications that benefit the public.
The program supports engineering, software, and physical science technologies, as well as biomedical, healthcare, and life science technologies. Proposals are reviewed by a committee of faculty and venture capitalists, with attention to scientific and technical merit, commercial potential, patent protection, technology transfer, and public benefit.
